for what purpose?
Contact Law, in the UK, can put one in touch with a child support lawyer for free. Although it is not free, the National Association For Child Support Action (NACSA) can provide help for those at any stage of the child support process, at reasonable cost.
Get you a lawyer and take them to court, make sure you have all your documents, etc etc to prove everything in court including having them to pay filing fees , court cost, lawyer fees. I would say good luck!
As much as the judge decides.
Go to your county's Domestic Relations office and fill out the intake form. It does not cost you anything, nor do you need a lawyer. After you fill it out, they will contact you and your former spouse/bf/gf and set up a hearing to determine the amount of support.
Because the cost of administration is the same wether it be for a child or adult. The price of the passport also pays for the cost of Consular support abroad.
This is dependent on numerous factors.
Yes, its child support. If the money is not used to support the child then its being misused. Alimony would be to support you. If the father is looking after the child, then he should not be paying child support to the mother - she doesn't have the cost of looking after the child at that time. In fact, the mother may well be in a position to send chilod support to the father - it goes both ways and she is responsible for the child just as much as the father is.
When states determine the amount of child support a parent must pay they do not necessarily factor in the cost of living. The basis for support is determined primarily of the needs of the child, the income of each parent, the ability for the non-custodial parent to pay and the standard of living the child was accustomed to prior to the divorce or separation.
It's a book that cost you money promising to help stop paying child support. It's similar to the books on how to stop paying taxes.
Your child payments will never go down, the cost of a child will only go up.
Child support does not belong to the child but rather to the custodial parent to help compensate for the cost of raising the child until he or she is 18 or no longer attends school as a fulltime student. The custodial parent can however seek payment for back past child support from the non custodial parent.
After finding that hourly rates are more common than a flat rate when paying for legal fees pertaining to a child support attorney I found that an hourly rate can cost anywhere from $50 to $1000 an hour. The median national hourly fee for a child support attorney is $284 per hour.